[tflight]

paulhawke, I’d like to give it a shot as I’m still several weeks away from a final cut-over. My two biggest pain points right now are preserving user passwords and preserving user email notifications… both of which are outside the scope of your project but issues I’m working on.

[endo.tv]

Hi Everyone! I just installed bbPress and got it up and running but now I can’t click on anything in the header. The text “Login” and “Register” don’t work. So I logged in through the bottom of another post, and once I got logged in, I still can’t click on anything in the header. So I can’t access any of the admin features.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

see for yourself

http://www.endo.tv/forum

Cheers

[Olaf Lederer]

@bobtheman,

you’re right, but I don’t believe in bbpress as the big forum system anymore. If I need to build a big forum I go for bigger projects like vbulletin. I think if bbpress is a plugin it will be a better system and frequently updated. And what’s wrong to have a blog and a forum on one site? I write so much articles on forums which better fit into a blog than a forum. Since bbpress has so many bugs the system need much more development than now. I’m sure systems like vbulletin has much more developers than bbpress (I forget there is currently no one)

[johnhiler]

It looks like this is the latest 1.0 alpha to include the importer and exporter:

https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/tags/1.0-alpha-6/bb-plugins/bbxf/

Sam mentioned in that earlier link that he’d rather have the importer/exporter based on RSS rather than a custom XML format… I think that’s why he actually removed it.

That said, you’re welcome to try out the bbxf plugins! It’d be great if someone could test them out and report back if they work or not!

[johnhiler]

The former project lead (Sam Bauers) mentioned 8 months ago that bbxf had been removed from bbPress:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbxf-%E2%80%93-bulletin-board-xml-format#post-35941

That’s the last official word I’ve heard on bbxf… but one note: the earlier discussions off bbxf mentioned it as a “bundled plugin”, not as part of the core.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-initiates-importexport-standard-for-web-forums

[bobtheman]

“My concern is that by making bbPress a plugin of WordPress, it’s DRASTICALLY moves bbPress away from the original goals because we already know that 1) bbPress would be *more* code, 2) much more complicated, 3) definitely slower given you have to load now WordPress and 4) fundamentally, this is not putting the user first.

Just my 2 cents … also, thanks in advance for answering my questions above “

I agree, making bbpress a plugin to WP is not in the best interest of bbpress. If this happens, our existence and success would be contingent on wordpress. The moment bbpress becomes a wp plugin, we are no longer a forum solution but rather a wordpress forum solution and we limit ourselves to just that.

[macadux]

Works! Had the same problem of WP & bbPress login knocking each other out but followed the steps of gerikg in this post and somehow overlooked (or wasn’t clear enough to me) these:

1. (re. step 4) make sure you prefix the KEY variables with “BB_” when copying to bb_config.php (AUTH_KEY => BB_AUTH_KEY, SECURE_AUTH_KEY => BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY, LOGGED_IN_KEY=> BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY …)

2. in bbPress WordPress Integration (under bbPress Settings) copy in the values into 3 fields of Cookies directly from the keys that were generated for you (WordPress “auth” cookie salt = AUTH_SALT, WordPress “secure auth” cookie salt = SECURE_AUTH_SALT, WordPress “logged in” cookie salt = LOGGED_IN_SALT) (do not get the values from clicking on the link WordPress admin page, where I couldn’t find all the values anyway)

[chrishajer]

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-add-new-topic-link#post-40451

[chrishajer]

bbPress is not a plugin for WordPress. It’s a standalone software package that you need to install, separately from WordPress.

[gerikg]

WPMU is a little different

Try these steps.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/login-integration-issues-bbpress-and-wordpress-mu#post-62274

Someone I was helping said that php5 must be used.

[kingkong954]

Using WP 2.9.1 and bbPress 1.02 and I also cannot get integration.

Followed the steps in this thread, but I am getting the same symptom as most:

Login WP -> knocks me out of bbPress

Login bbPress -> knocks me out of WP

…user access/roles share across both fine, however.

[bobtheman]

I would like to start discussion regarding a single sign on feature, and developing integration for other platforms other than just wordpress “joomla, drupal, etc” in order to open up the usability of bbpress and be less restrictive than just supporting WP.

conversion methods and tools for both CMS platforms and forum software conversion “preferably from “phpbb, smf, vb, vanilla” to bbpress of course ..

any ideas and suggestions are welcome

[nakedpersonals]

…I’m new to BBpress, so I hope this isn’t a stupid question. (I can’t find the relevant code in any of my template files.)

P.S. my username/url is meant to be taken figuratively.

[greghalpen]

hello,

I see that 1.0 bbPress isn’t ready, but I am trying to upload the version before that. It’s installed on the server, but when i go to the plugin page on my site, bbpress isn’t listed there?

It’s not showing up on my plugins list.

Any thoughts?

[kevinjohngallagher]

Bob,

As much as you may think this is me being difficult, can i strongly suggest that having an impromtu IRC chat with less than 2 days notice, on VALENTINE’S DAY, at (minimum of) 1am in Europe or 6am in India is… i’m trying hard to phrase this nicely… wishful.

As much as we all want the best for bbPress, rushing these things is never productive. Heck, not everyone you’d want involved checks the forums every 2 days!

Kev

[bobtheman]

Everyone is invited to the bbpress IRC gathering on

February 14th 2010 @ 7 PM EST

irc.freenode.net

#bbpress

If your not familiar with IRC, the easiest way to join the chat is to visit this link and pick a user name

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=bbpress

Some Topics Of Discussion:

Project Manager Appointment

Ground work for Project Roadmap

Release of 1.2 and future bug hunts

[Anonymous User]

Hi all,

my first test shows that the trunk version of bbPress breaks ‘BB Anonymous Posting’, ‘Post Meta for bbPress’, ‘Human Test for bbPress’ and ‘bbPress-WordPress syncronization’.

And the new “Login-Less Posting” doen’t work in my installation.

So I will do more testing tomorrow …

[chengdu-living]

I added that bit to .htaccess and it doesn’t seem to have changed anything. Perhaps it takes time to take effect? Here’s what my .htaccess looks like:

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

</IfModule>



RewriteEngine on



RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.:]+.)*chengduliving.com/bbpress.?(:[0-9]*)?$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.chengduliving.com/forum/$1 [R=301,L]



# END WordPress

[johnhiler]

Ah yah, this plugin doesn’t seem to work in 1.0:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/read-only-forums/

Your best bet is to ask or hire someone to upgrade the plugin to support 1.0? The number of changes needed is probably fairly low…

Or there’s always the ultra-hacky solutions!

1) If your entire forum is read-only, you could hide the “Add New” link from your template, and only share it with people you want to post into your forums!

2) If you only want specific forums to be read-only, you could turn them into a “Category”. Then nobody can post into those forums… but when you want to post, you could just change it from a Category back into a forum temporarily.

[drewva]

I’m sure this would be a really useful feature for most forum administrators… “Read-only forums”

Can you add the ability to create read-only forums in the admin tools area? I know there is a read-only plugin for bbpress but it is no longer supported (last update was in 2008).

This would be such a great feature. I want to set up a forum topic that is informational for forum users, one that I don’t want users posting to.

[bedbugger]

Thanks for your response. It looks like a great theme!

I cannot switch my WP theme at this time and am looking for a new bbpress theme that works well independently of the WP install.

[jebus]

I’m in the exact same boat. Seems odd bbPress doesn’t have this feature built in. Anybody know of a workaround?

Thanks.

[chrishajer]

Good catch. I opened trac ticket https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1256

[kadr]

Hey,

I changed this line in my theme:

<p><?php _e(‘Allowed markup:’); ?> <?php allowed_markup(); ?>.
<?php _e(‘You can also put code in between backtick ([…] ) characters.’); ?></p>

to this line

<p><?php _e(‘Allowed markup:’); ?><?php allowed_markup(); ?>`. <?php _e(‘ ‘); ?></p>

And then I got this error on the forum:

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening ” for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear’) in /domains/lijstblanco.nl/DEFAULT/bbpress/bb-includes/functions.bb-template.php on line 45

So I changed it back, but the error remains!

Any idea what to do now?

[OKTeaRoom]

Gautam, does this plugin still work by any chance?

It has a reference to “ed_toolbar” in the comments which makes me think it might be what they are using on the wordpress forums:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/quicktags-4-bbpress/#post-36